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Article: New arachnoid cyst research from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University described.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- May 13, 2009
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"The optimal therapy of arachnoid cysts is controversial. In symptomatic extraventricular arachnoid cysts, fenestration into the basal cisterns is the gold standard," scientists in Mainz, Germany report (see also Arachnoid Cyst).
"If this is not feasible, shunt placement is frequently per-formed although another endoscopic option is available. Between March 1997 and June 2006, 12 endoscopic cystoventriculostomies were performed for the treatment of arachnoid cysts in I I patients (4 male and 7 female patients, mean age 52 years [range 14-71 years]). All patients were prospectively followed up. In 11 cases, the arachnoid cysts were frontotemporoparietal and ...